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What's with All the Pressure?
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Duplessis, Michael Yowell, Janet Samson, Carleigh |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Students learn how to take blood pressure by observing a teacher demonstration and then practicing on fellow classmates in small groups. Once the hands-on component of this activity is completed, the class brainstorms and discusses how blood pressure might affect a person's health. Students learn how to take blood pressure by observing a teacher demonstration and then practicing on fellow classmates in small groups. Once the hands-on component of this activity is completed, the class brainstorms and discusses how blood pressure might affect a person's health. This activity acts as hook for the second lesson in this unit, in which blood pressure is presented in detail, as well as how variances in blood pressure can affect a person's cardiovascular system. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Vanderbilt University |
| Subject Keyword | Biology Blood Pressure Sphygmomanometer Disease Legacy Cycle Blood Blood Flow Heart |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT45M |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Biology |